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On a strong day for Venezuela all round, another of their athletes made the final of the women’s under 50kg kumite division.

Aurimer Campos won all four of her matches, including a 5-2 triumph against Canada’s Merly Huamani in the semi-finals, and will face Dominican Republic’s two-time Pan American Games champion Ana Villanueva.

The 36-year-old will go for another gold after beating Nicaragua’s Ana Mendez 9-1.

On the men’s side, the lightweight under 60kg final will pitch Uruguay’s Maximiliano Larrosa against Brazil’s 33-year-old Douglas Brose.

Brose, who is considered one of Brazil’s greatest karatekas, has won the Pan American title five times.

He beat Mexico’s Arturo Estrada 3-0 in his semi-final and will go for his sixth gold against Larrosa, who beat another Mexican, Jesus Gerardo Herrera.

About the author

Prior to joining insidethegames.biz in June 2018, James worked as a broadcast journalist at Celador Radio in Bristol, where he read the drivetime news across seven stations in the South West of England. He graduated from the University of Exeter in 2016 with a 2:1 in History, before completing a Masters in Broadcast Journalism at Salford University. James’ passion lies in sport. He has a golf handicap of nine, is a qualified windsurfing instructor, regularly plays hockey and tennis and has previously competed in the long jump at a national level. His first trip with insidethegames.biz was to cover IOC Executive Board meetings in Lausanne, while he has since covered the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang.

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Fact of the day

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.

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